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505 History and politics poems
07/04/2025 00:00h
Reconstruction almost worked
twelve years
and then it didn't
and we've been living in that failure
ever since
the history they don't teach you
is usually the important part
11/01/2024 00:00h
I went to the national archives once
they let me hold a letter
from 1789
just paper
just words
but i thought about whose hands
it passed through
to get to mine
02/08/2024 00:00h
History remembers the leaders
not the ones who carried the water
or wrote the letters
or stayed at home and kept things running
history is always a narrowing
of what actually happened
11/20/2023 00:00h
democracy is a conversation
across time
the founders talking to us
us talking back
it's messy
it's supposed to be
08/22/2023 00:00h
We built this country too
the unrecorded labor
the unpaid hands
the erased names
we built it
and we're still being asked
to prove we belong here